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John Clark
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✍️ Former "Nature Loves Courage" Zine Creator / Poet & Bands Night Promoter. Musician. Published Poet. Reviewer of Film and Events. selftransformingelfmachine.substack.com
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John Clark @jacksonmottii.bsky.social · 2d
New Substack post up now.

#substack #poet #poem

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Silent in Another Moment
(A Morialta Poem)
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John Clark @jacksonmottii.bsky.social · Sep 11
New mysterious post up on Substack

www.selftransformingelfmachine.substack.com
Yellow background fading to red / maroon halfway down the image with a pink italic question mark over the top. John Clark and mystery post written bottom left with thumbnail of Substack profile image
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John Clark @jacksonmottii.bsky.social · Aug 30
New Substack post up. The list continues, leaning this time into spoken word and poetry stuff.

There are 73 entries in total, in honour of the classic 73 Routemaster buses that trundled down Stoke Newington Church Street at that time.

#johnhegley

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John Clark @jacksonmottii.bsky.social · Aug 21
New Substack post up. A soundtrack to the nature loves courage zine days, the live shows, the poetry nights and the radio show.

Part I

www.selftransformingelfmachine.substack.com

#naturelovescourage #johnclark #substack #danieljohnston #sonicyouth #wesleywillis #theraincoats #arthurrussell
A black and white comic album cover, don't be scared text large upper area, 'by dan Johnston' in the lower area, to the right a drawing of dan with missing brain and crying tears. On top of this text advertising a Substack post nature loves courage bangers list part one, the music and noise that flowed to and from NLC, the soundtrack to it's life. Available August 21st 2025.
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John Clark @jacksonmottii.bsky.social · Aug 15
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#substack #montparnasse #debeavoir #sartre #manray #memoir
Reflections and Slow Fever at the Cimetière du Montparnasse
A short memoir. Paris 2013
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John Clark @jacksonmottii.bsky.social · Aug 11
#jomf #comanechi #mycatisanalien #zalikrishna #naturelovescourage
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John Clark @jacksonmottii.bsky.social · Aug 7
New Substack Post up. Archive Zine Live Review. Naughty word in one band name may offend

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Black text on white background, list of band names and event details beneath
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John Clark @jacksonmottii.bsky.social · Aug 3
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At Howling Dawn
Poem + Spoken Word Audio Recording
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John Clark @jacksonmottii.bsky.social · Aug 1
New Substack started:
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John Clark | Substack
Poet / Writer / Musician Former Creator / Editor of Nature Loves Courage zine and events in London and Adelaide. Artists included: ChowChow, Tom Moth (Florence and the Machine), John Hegley, Dick Dale...
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John Clark @jacksonmottii.bsky.social · Jul 17
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Sign the Petition
Nominate Francesca Albanese for Nobel Peace Prize
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John Clark @jacksonmottii.bsky.social · Jul 12
A black and white picture of a gentleman in a beret-esque hat and long black wool coat with upturned collar.
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John Clark @jacksonmottii.bsky.social · Jun 14
The absurdity of writing while the world is deliberately burned but we have to keep expressing and speaking up. We're going to need fire resistant paper

Respect to all journalists in war zones accurately reporting and rememberance for those lost 🕯️

#riteinthefire
#youthagainstfascism
#warpigs
Tan cover of rite in the rain notebook with logo: image of pencil and rain drops in a square with text below: rite in the rain all-weather universal 946T. Upper area, grey winter sky and buildings rising up, lower area: spirited people gathered with flags
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John Clark @jacksonmottii.bsky.social · Jun 7
"...The Weather turned around"
Ground with grass and leaf in lower 2/3rds, above, feet in black converse, black clothing, brown coat open Olive Green waterproof notebook held by fingerless black gloved hand, damp ground and black shoed feet beneath Grey cloudy sky hangs over foreground pens, muddy with horses centre and right
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John Clark @jacksonmottii.bsky.social · Jun 7
Went out for a walk in a break in the severe weather
A gentleman posing in a backwards black flat hat worn beret style wearing a long brown coat with collar and lapels up against the cold weather. In the background a grey cloudy sky and and plane passing overhead
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John Clark @jacksonmottii.bsky.social · May 22
It certainly has its benefits! Far away from everywhere though
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John Clark @jacksonmottii.bsky.social · May 19
#odeonindolence
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John Clark @jacksonmottii.bsky.social · May 19
#poetry #poem #keats

"Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone"

John Keats
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John Clark @jacksonmottii.bsky.social · Apr 23
Get well and have a good rest
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John Clark @jacksonmottii.bsky.social · Apr 23
Haven't seen any for ages, was a real treat. I drive to this place but usually later in the day, earlier in the morning the animals are more active. They looked surprised to see me too 😅. Hope you can see some nature soon
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John Clark @jacksonmottii.bsky.social · Apr 23
Early morning walk.

Guess which country I live in 😅
Green gum tree foliage. Close up of tree trunk and branch with grey koala bear sitting testing it's head on the trunk, dozing. 3 kangaroos in a row, mid left to right on dusty light brown dirt / soil. Small trees and bushes in background A landscape picture with a small city in the background. Green trees and bushes along the bottom in the foreground. Cloudy sky above white clouds and some blue sky
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John Clark @jacksonmottii.bsky.social · Apr 19
#skypoets #poetry #poem #writing #ereshkigal #sumerian #sumeriangoddess #blueskypoets
A poem written over a light tan / sand coloured stone carving of the ancient Sumerian Goddess of the Underworld 'Ereshkigal'. The poem entitled 'Ereshkigal's Summer reads, 'Her dust is drowned by the careless greed God but in mud she reels and screams' followed a gap featuring small text that says 'john Clark 2025'. The poem continues below, ' Desolation completes her heart of air and she yet forgets to breathe.'
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John Clark @jacksonmottii.bsky.social · Apr 19
Desk cat

#deskcat #deskcatsofbluesky #catsofbluesky #cat #desk #writing #poetry #poets
A cat lies curled up on a light coloured desk between a cushion depicting 3 alpaca type animals wreathed in red and a silver laptop PC on a wooden stand. 2 mugs and a silver tray are on the far end of the desk. A teapot sits on the tray. A stand with a pair of bongos is in the background in the top right of the picture
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John Clark @jacksonmottii.bsky.social · Apr 8
#howl #direwolf #wolf #jackal
#poem #skypoets #poetry #sonicpoetry #poetryreading

This seemed appropriate after hearing the little howls of the genetically engineered wolves / dire wolves 🐕

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...At Howling Dawn, by John Clark
track by John Clark
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John Clark @jacksonmottii.bsky.social · Apr 7
#skypoets #poem #haiku #poetry
#blueskypoetry #garthalgar

A Haiku

Become a mirror
And others will see their selves
True, a river moon
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John Clark @jacksonmottii.bsky.social · Apr 7
Going to change my account name. I've been using a pen name, after an ancestor, from whom I inherited a mysterious painting. Mott is my family name going back generations, my Gran's name. I will use it for a long form project